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Zafar Anjum is a Singapore-based Indian journalist and writer. He has been writing fiction and essays since 2000. Over the years, his writing has appeared in periodicals and websites in India, US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other countries. Zafar is a cineaste, an avid blogger (dreamink.blogspot.com), and editor of Kitaab.org, a website dedicated to Asian
writing in English. An award-winning journalist-Zafar works as the Asia Online Editor for Fairfax Business Media’s technology publications including Computerworld Singapore, Computerworld Malaysia, CIO Asia and MIS Asia.

With more than half a century of work experience, Prof. N. Balasubramanian embodies a unique blend of exposure to the industry and academia. For three and a half decades, he served companies like Imperial Chemical Industries, Britannia and Wipro at senior levels. He then switched to academia and currently teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was a professor at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
A non-practising chartered accountant with a PhD in business finance, and a deep interest in Indian scriptures and heritage, Prof. Balasubramanian has been on the statutory and advisory boards of listed companies as well as early-to-mid-term start-ups. He also serves on the editorial and advisory boards of some Indian and international scholarly journals. Prof. Balasubramanian lives with his family in Thane, near Mumbai. This is his eighth book.

Kartikeya Kompella is the founder of Purposeful Brands. The author of Building Brands, Building Meaning and Applying the Branding Iron, he is also the editor of two internationally acclaimed books on branding: The Definitive Book of Branding and The Brand Challenge. Kartikeya is passionate about using the power of purposeful brands to change the world. He has spoken at various international conferences on topics ranging from market research to CSR to CRM. Kartik lives in Bangalore with his wife, Vinitha, and daughter, Mithya.

Dev Prasad is an IT professional residing in Bangalore. He secured his degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Trichy, and done his MDP Program from IIM Bangalore. He has held senior management positions at various European and American Multinational Companies.

Though an engineer by qualification, he has a wide range of interests. These include reading, writing, travelling, photography, study of mythology and listening to music. He likes creative writing and has worked as a part time freelance copywriter for three years for many advertising agencies. He has written many poems, one of which was selected by International Poets Association, USA. He is passionate about serving the society and has been associated with a few NGOs working for underprivileged children. He loves sports like cricket, badminton, table tennis and chess. His debut book KRISHNA: A Journey Through the Lands & Legends of Krishna was longlisted for 2010 Vodafone Crossword Award.

He can be contacted at dev.prasad63@gmail.com

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is vice chancellor and professor of history at Ashoka University. Earlier, he taught at Calcutta University; he has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Manchester University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was the editor of the editorial pages of The Telegraph, Calcutta, and continues in that role as a consultant. He is the author and editor of several books which include Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance, and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres, as well as The Penguin Gandhi Reader.

Arun Sinha is among India’s distinguished journalists and has worked for the Indian Express, the Times of India (Bihar edition) and the Free Press Journal. Acclaimed for his path-breaking investigative journalism, he was the first Reuters Fellow from India at Oxford. Since 1993, he has been the editor of the Navhind Times, Goa. His scholarly articles have been published in anthologies in India and abroad. His other books include Against the Few: Struggles of India’s Rural Poor and Goa Indica: A Critical Portrait of Postcolonial Goa.

Prafull Anubhai did his BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics and attended the Programme for Management Development (PMD) at Harvard Business School. He has thirty years of experience as chief executive of textile manufacturing operations and has been a corporate advisor associated with educational institutions like Indian Institute of Management (IIMA), Ahmedabad Education Society (AES), Ahmedabad University, and Centre for Science Technology and Policy (CSTEP). He is the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Ahmedabad University, a member of the Governing Board of AES and the Honorary Director of Saptak Archives, an institution dedicated towards the preservation and dissemination of Indian classical music. Presently, he is a Director in companies like Unichem Laboratories Ltd., Vardhman Textiles Ltd., Birla Sun Life Trustee Co. Pvt. Ltd, GRUH Finance Ltd. (a subsidiary of HDFC Ltd), and Torrent Cables Ltd., among others. He lives in Ahmendabad.

Debashis Sarkar, Managing Partner at Proliferator Advisory & Consulting, is a prominent organizational improvement expert from Asia. His work focuses on customer centricity, operational excellence, and organizational effectiveness, with a client footprint spanning Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Notably, Sarkar pioneered the application of lean management in service companies across Asia in the early 2000s. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and was recognized by the Journal of Engineering Research as one of the top 50 contributors to the field of quality management. An accomplished author, he has received numerous accolades, including the Phil Crosby Medal, the Simon Collier Award, and QCI’s Quality Champion Award.

Dr. Rajan Sankaran is a globally respected homoeopath, healer, teacher, and author whose pioneering insights have shaped the practice of homoeopathy for over four decades. His books and teachings, translated into many languages, continue to inspire practitioners across five continents. Beyond his profession, he is a seeker and storyteller, deeply engaged with spirituality and music—paths he sees as leading to the same truth. His lifelong quest has been to recognize the patterns that shape human beings and to help people become aware of their own, so that they may live with greater freedom. He divides his time between Mumbai and Pune, India, while continuing to teach worldwide. Website: www.rajansankaran.com